Learn about METRO’s innovative use of biosolids beginning in the 1980s.
Exhibits and News from the King County Archives
Bytes and Boxes Posts
Overview of the Sensitive Areas Ordinance in King County.
Zine-Making at Washington Hall for American Archives Month.
Over the last four weeks, King County Archives has hosted two high school seniors from the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) for their…
The Archives is excited to announce that the Councilmember Audrey Gruger records are newly processed and organized for public research.
April is National Poetry Month, and King County Archive would like to highlight some of the verse that can be found in our collections.
The AIDS virus first appeared in King County in 1982, a year after cases had first been reported in other US metropolitan areas. It was…
Among the hundreds of digitized records we have available that represent documents, maps, and photographs from our collection, I’ve recently discovered a bounty of photographs…
If you’ve ever browsed an archives catalog, occupied a research room, or noticed a very tidy box in your research, maybe you’ve wondered: “Where’d that…
In 2016, the King County Archives produced an oral history project and online exhibit documenting Seattle-King County Department of Public Health’s response to the HIV/AIDS…